User Experience in the Age of Sustainability

Preface

User experience professionals are at the apex of a new and exciting field that may one day be termed sustainable user experience design and research. Understanding how to puzzle together the pieces and make sense of the wide field of sustainability, as well as combine user research knowledge, has been my personal passion. Over the last few years, much time has been spent questioning the role of user research in design and development. Moreover, I spent a lot of time thinking about the role we play as solution providers that consider ecology as a key factor in design, whether it is something as simple as advocating for a service-based subscription over the design of another piece of hardware, driving more efficiency in workflow, or advocating ...